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...have become the galley slaves of capitalism. Without them, the nation's banks would be buried under the blizzard of 35 billion checks that rain down on them annually, and economists trying to project the growth of the nation's $2 trillion economy might as well use Ouija boards. In the airline industry, computers make it possible to reserve a seat on a jumbo jet, pay for it by credit card, and enable the plane itself to fly. In many industries, computers design the products the companies sell. Automakers, for example, use computers to view a prospective...
...recipient of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry is The Book of Ephraim, a 90-page narrative poem. Merrill, 50, sets up a premise that gives him the latitude of Dante and the eternity of Scheherazade. He claims that in 1955 he and a companion made contact-via a Ouija board-with the spirit of Ephraim, a Greek Jew born in A.D. 8 who was also, in a second incarnation, a favorite of the Emperor Tiberius. As a cup moves among the capital letters on the board, Ephraim is resuscitated as a chatty, crotchety witness to history and to two decades...
...Ouija" boards by the hundreds rolled off assembly lines, and backlogged piles of "Sorry" and hundreds of tokens, dice, deeds, cards, wheels, and boards spewed...
...competition from outside the league, traditionally a good spot for almost everyone to pick up much needed momentum. With a reminder that I nailed 31 out of 40 games last year for a percentage of .775, we turn now to the crystal ball, located in the middle of the Ouija board littered with tarot cards, to predict this week's winners in what appears to be a disturbingly tough slate of eight games...
...duty to tell you that I had the score of the Dartmouth-Columbia game (21-0) right on the button last week. There was also a typographical error that said that Cornell would be Brown. I don't know how it happened. In any case, my Ouija board reports the following...